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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia landed the top spot in U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of the best pediatric hospitals across the country, followed by Boston Children's Hospital. Hospitals were evaluated on clinical outcomes, care coordination and care-related resources.

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Canadian researchers found that a standardized infection control and prevention program helped lower hospital-acquired infections by 19% over four years and resulted in savings in care costs. Eighty percent of savings were observed in the last half of the program, researchers reported in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Hospitalized men were 30% more likely than women to develop community-associated bloodstream infections and 60% more likely to have health care-related bloodstream and surgical-site infections, according to a study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The link was less pronounced before age 12 and after age 70.

Following evidence-based guidelines and connecting electronic health records to bedside monitors and medical devices are two ways to reduce hospital-acquired infections, according to Dr. William Yarbrough, chief of ICU Informatics at the Dallas VA Medical Center. Other successful initiatives used at the Dallas hospital's ICU include creating computerized checklists, transferring patients out of the ICU and emergency department as soon as possible, and creating standardized clinical terminology.

Following evidence-based guidelines and connecting electronic health records to bedside monitors and medical devices are two ways to reduce hospital-acquired infections, according to Dr. William Yarbrough, chief of ICU Informatics at the Dallas VA Medical Center. Other successful initiatives used at the Dallas hospital's ICU include creating computerized checklists, transferring patients out of the ICU and emergency department as soon as possible, and creating standardized clinical terminology.

Following evidence-based guidelines and connecting electronic health records to bedside monitors and medical devices are two ways to reduce hospital-acquired infections, according to Dr. William Yarbrough, chief of ICU Informatics at the Dallas VA Medical Center. Other successful initiatives used at the Dallas hospital's ICU include creating computerized checklists, transferring patients out of the ICU and emergency department as soon as possible, and creating standardized clinical terminology.